Legal Opinion
Open Text S.A. v. Box, Inc.
District Court, N.D. California
Decided January 20, 2015No. Case No. 13-cv-04910-JDPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING RULE 12(C) MOTION FOR JUDGMENT OF INVALIDITY OF GROUPWARE PATENTS
Re: Dkt. No. 295
JAMES DONATO, United States District Judge
Defendant Box moves for judgment of invalidity on the pleadings on the grounds that plaintiff Open Text’s “Groupware” patents1 claim patent-ineligible subject matter. See Dkt. No. 295. The common specification of the five Groupware patents describes the unremarkable concept of people working together on a project:
Recently, the need for collaborative computing environments has been receiving increasing attention. People are finding that it is more and more…
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